Smoking is a hard habit to break, because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive.
Like heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become used to the nicotine in cigarettes. So much so that they need to have more to get there kick.
People starts smoking for various reasons, some think it looks cool, so start because either family or friends smoke. Statistics show that 9 out of10 start before they are 18 yo. Most adults that started smoking in their teen’s years never expected to become addicted. That is why people say it is so much easier to not start smoking at all.
- Bad breath
- Yellow teeth
- Cancers
- Smelly clothes
- More colds and coughs
- Difficulty keeping up in sports
- Empty wallet – cigarettes and tobacco products are very expensive
These are all reasons not to start smoking.
Why are cigarette smoking bad for me?
Everyone knows that smoking can cause cancer when older, but did you know that it also has bad effects on your body right now? A cigarette contains about 4000 chemicals, many of which are poisonous.
- Nicotine is a deadly poison
- Arsenic used in rat poison
- Methane a component of rocket fuel
- Ammonia found in floor cleaners
- Cadmium used in batteries
- Carbon monoxide part of car exhaust
- Formaldehyde used to preserver body tissue
- Butane lighter fluid
- Hydrogen cyanide this poison was used in gas chambers
Every time you inhale smoke from a cigarette, small amounts of these chemicals get into your blood through your lungs. They travel to all the parts of your body and cause harm.
What do all these chemicals to my body?
As you might imagine, even small amounts of the poisonous chemicals in cigarettes can do bad things to your body. Here are some facts about what smoking cigarettes do to you.
- Smoking makes you smell bad
- Gives you wrinkles
- Smokers 3 times more cavities than non smokers
- Smoking lowers your hormones
- When smokers catch a cold they are more likely than non smokers to have a cough that lasts a long time.
- They are also more likely to get Bronchial problems and pneumonia
- Teen smokers have smaller hearts and lungs than non teen smokers
- They also get sick more often than teens that don’t smoke
What happens to my lungs when I smoke?
Every time you inhale smoke from a cigarette, you kill some of the air sacs called Alveoli. These air sacs are where the oxygen that you breathe is transferred into your blood. These air sacs don’t grow back. This means that when you do things to weaken them, you have permantly destroyed parts of your lungs. This means that you won’t do as well in activities, where breathing is important like sports dancing or singing.
Smoking also paralysis, the cilia that line your lungs, the cilia are little hair like structures that move back and forth to sweep particles out of your lungs. When you smoke, the cilia can’t move and can’t do its job, so dust pollen and other things that you inhale, sit in your lungs and build up. Also there are lots of particles, in smoke that gets into your lungs. Since your cilia are paralysed because of the smoke, the particles sit in your lungs and form tar.

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by Jamie-Ann Richardson